Warner Brothers is staying pretty mum about most of the new developments surrounding the Justice League film. Thanks to Latino Review, though, we’re getting some possible info. Apparently, a series of events could unfold that would have Christian Bale reprising his role as Batman for the upcoming movie.

The entire theory revolves around two truths: one, that Christopher Nolan, director of the Dark Knight trilogy, is returning as a sort of super-producer for the project, putting all of the pieces together to make this thing work. And secondly, per the review:

“Remember, Bale even told Empire Magazine last summer, ‘If Chris came to me with a script and said, ‘you know what? There is another story,’ then I would love the challenge of making the fourth one work.'”

Speculation aside, the obsessive comic book heads over at the LR are as reliable a source as we’re going to get until we directly hear Nolan say “Bale is our guy.” We’ll continue to update you as more JL details trickle out, but needless to say, getting one of the biggest names in comic book movie history on board is a huge step in the right direction.

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part of me is kinda excited about this….but the larger part doesnt like how sloppily this is all being handled compared to marvel. i wasnt a huge fan of “rises” and the ending there makes it hard to believe that this is the same universe that can have a superman, wonder woman, flash, etc. i will say im looking forward to Man of Steel, i was one of the few that really enjoyed Suckerpunch. and that kinda action sensibility applied to superman can be really good

This is being very lazily handled by WB, but I can’t say I completely abhor what they’re trying to do. If this is the route they’re gonna go down, they need to revisit the ending of TDKR because his whole death sequence could’ve been handled soooo much better

But yeah, they’re not treating this right. There needs to be individual Wonder Woman and Flash movies to set up those characters, and maybe a Green Lantern movie if Ryan Reynolds isn’t coming back.

Even if they were to set it up properly though, I don’t think a Justice League movie will work. Superman and Wonder Woman have basically every super power in the book, the Flash can time travel and Green Lantern has the most powerful weapon in the universe. What villain can they come up with that justifies bringing all of them together, including Batman’s weak ass?

Plus, can you imagine a real life Wonder Woman? Bitch has a ‘Lasso of Truth’ and flies around in an invisible plane. They’ve been trying to make a Wonder Woman movie/tv show for years and it’s never taken off because the character is too antiquated and animated for a serious live action movie.

Even if Nolan, Bale and Snyder hop on board, I’m still going to be skeptical.